{"id":6336,"date":"2016-03-08T16:24:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2016-03-08T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:25:36","slug":"hail-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/hail-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail no"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we are enjoying beautiful weather across most of the Southeast this week, it&#8217;s always good to be aware of severe weather. \u00a0The National Severe Storms Lab (NSSL) has some great resources on severe weather at their website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssl.noaa.gov\/education\/svrwx101\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.nssl.noaa.gov\/education\/svrwx101\/<\/a>, including one on hail.<\/p>\n<p>For agriculture, hail does not even need to be large to cause big economic losses&#8211;small hail that blemishes fruit, for example, can cause the quality to decrease markedly, reducing its value because of the cosmetic losses. \u00a0But large hail can cause damage to property, animals, and humans, so if hail is forecast or observed, watch out!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6337\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Hail_Damage_on_Tomatoes_2634477599.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6337\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Hail_Damage_on_Tomatoes_2634477599-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hail damage to tomatoes. Source: Dwight Sipler, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Hail_Damage_on_Tomatoes_2634477599-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Hail_Damage_on_Tomatoes_2634477599-92x138.jpg 92w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/Hail_Damage_on_Tomatoes_2634477599.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hail damage to tomatoes. Source: Dwight Sipler, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6338\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/hail-damage-to-pears.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6338\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6338\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/hail-damage-to-pears-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"Source: I.S\u00e1\u010dek, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/hail-damage-to-pears-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/hail-damage-to-pears-140x138.jpg 140w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/hail-damage-to-pears.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: I.S\u00e1\u010dek, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we are enjoying beautiful weather across most of the Southeast this week, it&#8217;s always good to be aware of severe weather. \u00a0The National Severe Storms Lab (NSSL) has some great resources on severe weather at their website\u00a0https:\/\/www.nssl.noaa.gov\/education\/svrwx101\/, including one on hail. For agriculture, hail does not even need to be large to cause big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6341,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions\/6341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}